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Is the Tide Turning in favor of the Ngozi Nomination?
US World Bank nominee under fire over book By Robin Harding, Financial Times: Jim Yong Kim, the US nominee to head the World Bank, is coming under fire over a book he co-authored that criticises...
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Daily Roundup on Kim vs. Ngozi for World Bank President
Could Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala head the World Bank? (ungated) By Lant Pritchett, The Guardian The candidacy of an African woman, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to lead the World Bank represents a historic opportunity...
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You will not read this blog post today
There is widespread consensus that development in Africa is held back by the capricious policies of the government. I am referring, of course, to the US government. A crucial duty-free provision of the...
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How much do Europeans account for economic development?
From the Wall Street Journal, by Daniel Lippman: European settlement had a longstanding positive effect on economic development in countries that were colonies, notwithstanding the terrible effects of...
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World Bank President Completes Record Democracy-Free Term
Here at DRI, we must concede our longstanding strenuous effort to get the individual who has been World Bank President to say the word “Democracy” has ignominiously failed. His term ends this weekend....
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Today’s mention of this jailed dissident is really one mention too many
From a letter just published in the New York Review of Books, signed by me and others: On June 27, 2012, the Ethiopian high court convicted journalist Eskinder Nega and twenty-three others on vague...
View Article“We” Davos Men will save the world
Bill Easterly responds to Bill and Melinda Gates’ Annual Letter: Mr Gates says there has been much progress, but that “we’ll need to apply human ingenuity and act on our compassion” to keep it going....
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NPR’s The Takeaway asks in an interview with one of our local troublemakers this week, are billionaire philanthropists the true champions in the fight against poverty? Listen to at least part of the...
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John Kerry in Ethiopia Today Fails to Change History of Rights-Abusing Aid
UPDATE 2, May 2, 12:47pm EDT: Is it progress to have provoked a one-on-one Twitter war with Ethiopian Foreign Minister Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus? UPDATE: May 2, 2014 Coverage of John Kerry’s...
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Then and Now: Migrant Labor Edition
Bayard Street tenement, New York City, 1888; Labor Camp 42, Abu Dhabi, 2014. Click to enlarge. On the left is one of photographer and muckraker Jacob Riis’ most famous photos, “Five Cents a Spot,”...
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